Word: fahd
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...Soviets need Western economic assistance), a joint U.S.-Soviet condemnation of Iraq was swiftly crafted. Once that was in place, other nations could join Washington without fear of reprisal. But the pieces still needed assembling, and the years Bush spent assiduously courting foreign leaders paid off handsomely. "Call Fahd, call Ozal, say this to this guy, that to another," says a Bush aide who watched his boss calculate. "No memos were required. It was all in his head. He operated exactly opposite of how Reagan worked. He knew the military thrust should follow the diplomatic. He knew that...
...mercy. But the resolve Bush projected was perceived as firm, in part because he waived the Metzenbaum amendment -- a restriction on the sale of U.S. jets to the Saudis. Coupled with the satellite intelligence showing that Saddam's forces were positioned to strike the Saudis, that action turned King Fahd into a believer, and U.S. troops were promptly invited to defend Saudi Arabia...
SAUDI ARABIA. After decades of relying on caution and massive infusions of money to soothe restive neighbors, Riyadh's room for maneuvering has severely shrunk. King Fahd, who characterized Iraq's adventuring as the "most horrible aggression the Arab nation has known in its modern history," faced a Hobson's choice: he could go it alone, leaving his small and scattered army to answer Iraq's battle-hardened troops, or he could call in the U.S. and lay bare his ties. Courageous as Westerners find him, Fahd can hardly dispute Saddam's < charge: "The joint policy with the foreigner...
Jackson arrived at the Charles Hotel at about 9:30 p.m. with his wife and two of his children for what he described as "a private visit" with the family of Prince Turki, who is a brother of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The Jacksons spent the night in the prince's 40-room suite and returned to Washington early yesterday morning...
Though help never came, Kuwaiti troops put up small pockets of resistance. At the palace, the country's symbolic heart, the Kuwaitis held their own through a two-hour artillery barrage. During the battle, the Emir's younger brother Fahd was killed. The Iraqi force assigned to secure the oil rigs off Kuwait's shores saw the most action. Kuwaiti troops and missile boats managed to sink and burn an unknown number of Iraqi landing craft and escort ships. By early afternoon, however, nearly all Kuwait's guns had been silenced. In all, it is estimated that 200 Kuwaitis were...